Antifriction roller-bearing.



0. s. LOGKWOOD.. ANTIPRIGTION ROLLER BEARING.

APPLICATION FILED 0014,1912- Patented July 21, 1914 upper ends of the conical seat on the nn'rrn s rata a ena on CHARLES S. LOCKWOOD, 0F NEWARK NEW JERSEY. ASSIGNOR T9 HYATT RQIULEH BEARING COMPANY, OF HARRISON,

NEW JERSEY,- A CORPORATIQN 015 NEW ROLLER-BEARING.

Patented July 231, 191L 24 JERSEY.

ANTIFRICTION 1,104,363, Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 4, 1912. Serial Nb; 7231846:

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, CHARLES S. Loon wool), a, citizen of the United States, residind at 289 Market street, Essex, and State of New vented certain new and useful Improvements in Antifriction Roller-Bearings, fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

The present invention relates to a rollerbearing operating with tapering rolls, which are often used instead of cylindrical rolls because they are adapted to resist a considerahle degree of longitudinal thrust. In such bearings, the hub has a conical seat to receive the series of rolls, and the casing has a tapcriiig seat to embrace the outer sides of the rolls, and the flaring character oi'the rolls tends when the load is placed upon the hearing, to force them toward the hub. Various means have been devised to sustain the end thrust of the rolls under this tendency, and the object of the present invention is to provide a means of accomplishing this object without adding materially to the friction of the bearing. This I effect by forming the conical sea-t upon the hub with a groove at its larger end, projecting anannular flange from the hub at the outer side of the said groove beyond the line of the conical seat, and providing each roll with a collar fitted. to the groove and contacting with the said flange at substantially equal distances outside and inside of the line of the conical seat.

Roll-collars have been fitted to grooves upon the hub of a bearing to resist end motion, but the walls of such a groove are commonly extended into the hub and thus have a periphery less in circumference than the conical seat upon the hub which carries the rolls. The roll-collars fitted to such grooves have a periphery greater than the periphery of the rolls and thus revolve at a greater velocity than the surface of the rolls, and produce a material ainount of rubbing friction where tlicv contact with the wal s of the groove, and a strong tendency to retard Jersey, have in- Newark, county oi' that end of the roll, and twist it from its normal position. Such friction is substan- .tially neutralized in my invention by the contact of the roll-collar with the annular flange next the groove at points outside and inside the line of the conical seat upon which the rolls revolve.

That portion. of the roll-collar which conacts with the flange inside the groove is larger in circumference than the peri hery of the roll, I speed and tends to advance that cn'd of the roll, while that portion of the roll-collar which contacts with the outer part of the flange has a cii'cil'ni'ference less than the periphery of the roll and tends to accelerate the same end. S'uch retardation and acceloration are made subslantialy equal and thus correct any tendency to disturb thnormal rotations of the rolls.

Where a roll contacts with some portion of the hub at one end only, it generally causes such endto' drag behind the opposite end which, where the cage embraces the roll twists the opposite ends of the rolls against the opposite sides ofthe pockets in the cage and produces a great deal of unnecessary friction. Where a collar upon the roll engages a groove at one end of the roll it is obvious that such results would occur unless means were found to counteract the twisting tendency, and this means is fully provided by my construction which tends equally to advance or accelerate the larger end of the roll and to retard the same, thus leaving it in a balanced condition capable of turning freely in the pockets in the cage To keep lation to the flange which resists the enclwise movement of the rolls, and the rolls in proper alinement with the hub, a cage is furnished that fits accurately against the sides of the rolls and guides them accurately, while permitting their free rotation.- Such cage is shown in the drawing formed of antifriction metal, as gun-metal, with pockets milled at their sides to fit the rolls acourately, a flange at the smaller end of the cage to fit a cage-seat upon the hub, a. riveting-fiange at the larger end 'of the cage, an

and thus revolves at a s owertheroll-collar's in the proper reof the cage with the rolls in their respective pockets, and in the lower half the larger opposite eiutls to guide the cage thereon.

hearing with the rolls not if! section; Fig.

with the taperin roll seat, B therein.

locity than the surface of the rolls where s ring'secured to such rivetingfiengeend end of the hu'o. i

The invention will he understood Dyreference to the annexcd drifijaiilgyixi, Which- Figure 1 is-a' longitudinal section of a shows the open end of-the casing and the larger endof the hub with the rolls fitted thereto and the entire cage omitted; Fig. 3 shows in its upper helf'the smaller end end of the cage with the pockets empty; 4 is an edge new of the upper half of the cage; eel Fig. 5 is a diagram showing one side of the hub in section, as in Fig. 1, "with the roll fitted thereto, this figure being enlergedo All designates the of the .heering G designates t e"hnb with tapering rllseat I), end ennuler cage-seats E and h at The hub has a groove a it the larger end of the roll-scat its inner Well being at right anglee to the conical surface of the seat, and an annular flange projected at, the outer side of the groove heyond'the'line of Fig.

5, which is extended from the conical surthe seat, and indlcetes the path of s surface.

Each roll a? is she ed to fit the roll-sect i and is fended with collar 6 face or having its conical to coincide with the flat he annular flange a.

Fine c n {:1 surface e touches the fiat surof the annular flange 5 at only a single line and us rolls upon it with the least outer side surface of possible lE JllOIL Such conical surface of the roll 7 proportioned, as shown m Fig. 5, to est mi eo i'ielly inside and outside of the line 0. that the collar it its contact with the @1138 o inside and outside of suchhne, revolves respectively at greater and less vethey rest upon the roll-seat D. The retard ing and accelerating effect of suchcontacts are thus practically balanced, and no tend ency is created to twist the rolls out of their normal positions. Their-resistance to guidance by the cage is thus reduced to a minimum, and they are enuloled to rotate in the pockets without any material pressure against the surface Z. l If the outer surface 6 of the roll-collar were made innit would require an undercut surface upon the annular flange Z) to fit it, and such undercut surface would be concave, and would contact with the corners of the roll-collar and thus generate :1 great deal ofcfriction.

In order to hold the rols accurately in their working positions, it is desirable in seat in on the lerger'end of the hill).

movahly an athis'con'struction to employs cage made of metal as gummetal'or type-o antiirictio metal,. with all the bearing surfaces accurately finished by turning ormillingso as to reduce the friction whereveriticontects with the roll; hub or casing Such cage has econicel or tapering body-portion f with 'a-nintegrtil flat annular gulde-frame 9 upon its smaller end to fit the cage-seat E at the smaller end of the hub, and the larger end of the bodyvhas a flat riveting-flange which a ring j is secured to rest upon th T, e hub is formed with shoulders adjacent to the seats, and when the ring y is rivetedto the end of the cage the ring-end the guideframe 9 move closeto the shoulders and thus hold the cage movable in the desire,

position.

The tapering body 7 is erforated to form ockets to receive the re is d and their colare e. The 'portibns of the body between the pockets form inclined spokes or guide arms I. The inner side of the body is coincident with the center line of the rolls, and the sides of the pockets are milled accurately to iii the curvature of the rolls on their outer sides, as shown at Z in the lower pert-oi Fig. 3- The upper ends of the pockets have recesses m in their opposite sides to clear the edges of the roll-collar e, ,thus dividing the riveting-flanged into sections (one upon the end of each guide-arm 3) provided with rivet-holes n, as shown in Fig, 3. The 'poclr ets are thus shaped, so that before the ring j i is attached to the cage, the, rolls may beset upon the hub and the open ends of the pools ets applied to the same and the cage pushed over the rolls into the position shown in Fig, 1., The ring j is then riveted to the rivetingfian e 2', which secures the cage with the curved sides Z of the pockets fittingeccurately but movably to the sidesof each roll 11 on its outer half. The rolls are thus assem led and retained upon the hub, so that the hub and rolls can be handled as a unit in transportation, or in applying them to the casing;

The hub and rolls are in practice, made of hardened steel ground accurately to the permanently upon the hub,

required shape and dimensions, and the whole construction 13' adapted for a very high-class bearing in which heavy loads are imposed upon the bearing, and the rolls are enabled to sustain them, and revolve wlth a. minimum of frlctlon, because the cage guides them accurately in the proper pathubout the hub.

Having thus set forth the nature of the invention what is claimed herein is:

In a roller bearing, the combination, with a hub having a conical roll-scat with an annular groove near the larger end and an I n'yneeas annular fiat flange next, such groove m 14205114; outward beyond the conical roll-Seat,

of a, series of tupel'nlo' rolls fitted to the roll seat and having co 1111's rotating in sznd groove and beveled upon their outer surface io contact with the fiat surface of the said flange, the beveled surface being proper 'iuioned to bear equally upon the flange at the outside and finside of the line of the conical ro'lLseaE, whereby the accelerating and recarding influence of the friction upon such collars are substantially equalized. I

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing wltnesses.

CHARLES S. LOGKWOOD.

Witnessee E. VVILLlAlKiS M. E. JAHN, 

